Changeable-speed gearing.



PATENTED N011. 19, 1907.

- E. H. MANNING.

GHANGEABLE SPEED GEARING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.21. 1906.

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Y Us TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EBENEZER HY MANNING, OF ELKHART, INDIANA.

cnaneEABLE-SPEED GEAMNG.

i Nor-arrasa,

i NiNG, a citizen of the United States,'residing at Elkhartf in lthe county of Elkhart and State of Indiana, have invented new and usclful Improvements in ChangeableeSpeed Gearof which 'the following is a specification.

n e gI'his invention relates to changeable speed gearing of the type embodying la drive shaft and a driven shaft operated .therefrom through the inediuin of intermediate fricltional gearing, and has for its objects to provide a comparatively siniple, inex nsive device of this character wherein t ie friction wheels will be positively and yieldably held to their work, one in which the transmission speed changing wheel maly be 'readily actuated for varying the speed of the driven shaft .relative to that of the drive shaftp'alld one in which the friction surface of the transmission wheel will at all times maintain the requisite frictional hold upon the cooperating friction wheels.

Vith these and other objects in view, the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts .more fulljr herein after described.

in theaccompanying drawings; Figure 1 is a top einbot ying the inventions Fig. 2 1s a hori zontal sectional view of the saine. i

Referring to the drawings, it will be seen that the gearing as a whole embodiesa'niain drive shaft 1, a'driven shaft 2 and a pair of opposed, axially alined stub shafts 3 arranged counter to the driven shaft and carrying idle rotation friction wheels or disks 4 adapted for operation through the niediurn of a friction pinion 5 fixed for rotation with the shaft 1:, and to impart-motion to the shaft Zl through the medium of a transmission wheel 6 fixed for rotation with the last named shaft and arranged between and for frictional engagement with' the inner faces of the pair of disks 4.

It will be observed that said disks, being mounted upon stub shafts, the inner faces of the disks are entirely unobstructed, thus pei iriitting the transmission wheel 6 to be' moved dianietrically across the faces of said friction wheels. This is an important feature of the invention since, .by moving the transmission wheel (i along the shaft 2 to a point coinciding with the actual center of the disks 4, movement of the said disk 6 will cease, while, by moving it beyond this point,

` Specification of Letters '.Eatent.y

Application niet. November 21|`1906 Serial Nel344.479.

lan view of a frictional driving gearing i shaft 1.

outer bearings 15 and collars 17 for holding v Patented Nov. 19, 1907.

it will be rotated in a reverse direction. A verylsiinple and effective ineans is thus afat will.

The pinion 5, which is fixed to the shaft 1 through tlie'niediuin of a spline or feather 7, is susceptible of'moveinent longitudinally of the shaft to' and from operative engagement with the disks 4 through thc niediuin of an actuating lever 8 fulcruined between its ends, as at 9, while the transmission wheel 6, which is lin likemanner connected on the `shaft 2 through. the niediuin of a s line or` i feather 10,'is adapted for inoveinent ongitudinally of the driven shaft in a direction radially of the disks 4 for changing the speed, `there being connected with tie wheel 6 bynieans of a link 11 an operating speed conas at 13. The transmission wheel `is provided with aii elastic, peripheral portion or rini 14 in the nature of a rubber tireiceinented or otherwise fixed on the wheelfand designed in practice to insure the requisite frictional hold between the parts, as n iore fully hereinafter explained.

The stub shafts 3 on which the disks 4 are fixed are 'ournaled for rotation each in a pair of spaced bearings and are pressed inward for maintaining tne disks 4 in active posit-ion through the inediuin of expansiblesprings 1 6 coiled upon the shafts and bearing at their outer ends against the outermost hearings 15 and at their inner ends against bearing collars 17 adjustably fixed on the shafts through the inedinin of set screws 18, said cellars being provided with projecting guide portions 19 which travel in contact with a fixed portion 20 to guide the shafts in their movements.

In practice, niotion is transmitted from the drive shaft 1 which may be operated froin any suitable source of power to the driven shaft 2 through the inediurn of the interengaging friction disks 4 and 5 and the transmission wheel 6, it being noted that the disk 5 may be moved into and out of engagement with the disks 4 inthe operation of starting or stopping the shaft 2 by nieans of the lever 8, while the wheel 6 niay, through the nicdiuni of the lever 12, be inoved back and forth radially of the disks 4 for chang ing the speed of shaft 2 relative to that of The springs 16 act between the the disks 4 yieldably to their work and in fo'rdcd for reversing the direction of rotation trolling lever 12 fulcrnined between its. ends properrctonal engagement with the disk 5. Under normal conditions, the elastic rim 14I of the transmission wheel 6 will be under compression between the disksvle, whereby in the event of the latter yielding outwardly upon the disk 5 being brought into action the rim will expand for maintaining the requisite frictional hold upon the inner faces of the disks 4, thus to obviate loss of motion between the parts. Also through the medium of the lever 12 the transmission wheel 6 may be moved along the shaft 2v to a oint beyondthe axial center of the' disks 4 'or reversing the Vdirection of f rotation of the driven shaft, as will be readily understood. ,l

Having thus described my invention, what claim is:

In a changeable speed gearinoj, a main drive shaft and a main driven shaft supported in longitudinal and axial alinement, pairs of spaced bearings erected adjacent to and at opposite sides of the main driven shaft,

fixed connecting portions or webs connecting said bearings in pairs, shafts supported 1 forrotation in said bearings at opposite/sides of andrfapproximately at right angles tothe ina-in driven shaft friction wheels or disks i mounted upon the inner ends of said shafts i and having unobstructed inner faces, collars' mounted adjustably upon the wheel carrying I shafts and having laterally extendin,r guide l portions traveling in contact with the xed portions or webs connecting the bearings, springs coiled upon the shafts between the i collars and the outermost bearings, and irnpelling the shafts in an inward direction toward each other, a friction pinion slidably i engaging the main drive shaft 'and adapted l for engagement with the rims of the friction i wheels, a. transmission wheel mounted slidably upon the main driven shaft and supi ported in engagenientwith Athe faces of the oppositely disposed friction wheels, and I means for effecting adjustment of the trans l mission Wheel diametrically across the faces of the friction wheels. i l In testimony whereof, l affix my signature `i/in presence of two witnesses. l 1 l l EBENEZER H. MANNING. i Witnesses:

EARNnsT A. SKINNnm f HALLIE DAVENPORT. 

